Cargill may move 54 jobs out of St. Clair

Looking for new site for administrative center

9:39 PM,
May 12, 2014

A production supervisor watches one of the evaporators at the Cargill Salt plant in St. Clair. Salt production at the site started in 1886. While the factory isn't moving, Cargill is looking for a new building to house the plant's administrative offices.

Written by

Liz Shepard
| Times Herald

Cargill Salt is looking to move its administrative offices - potentially out of St. Clair.

"The current building was built around a century ago and was never intended to be a long-term office," Chris Marshall, a Cargill logistics manager who is working on the relocation project, said in a statement. "It is in need of a lot of repairs. We considered repairing it as we have in the past, but we determined that this would be too costly."

The administrative offices, in the complex at 916 S. Riverside Ave., house 54 employees. ...